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maurice stierl

@mauricestierl.bsky.social
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Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University. Still convinced his football career is around the corner.

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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🎤 IMIS & #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social will present at the 6th International Conference: Carcerality, Borders and Mobility. Talk: "Epistemic Carcerality? (Non-)Knowledge and the Production of Geographies of Migrant Disappearance" buff.ly/cwEYlSl #MigrationStudies #CarceralGeography
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6th International Conference: Carcerality, Borders and Mobility
Carceral Geography Working Group 15-16 September, 2026 -Universität Trier, Germany The 6th International Conference for Carceral Geography draws together research exploring carcerality, borders and…
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here
Thousands of people
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Am #Weltflüchtlingstag diskutiert IMIS- und SFB1604-Mitglied @mauricestierl.bsky.social in der Volksbühne zum Thema #Bewegungsfreiheit im Kontext zunehmenden #Autoritarismus. #Migration #Migrationsforschung #Flucht #Menschenrechte
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Am Samstag bin ich in der Volksbühne und diskutiere mit Bafta Sarbo, Valeria Hänsel, Dorothee Krämer und Helen Rezene zum Thema Bewegungsfreiheit in immer autoritärer werdenden Zeiten. Kommt vorbeit! @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"And Yet They Move! Mobility conflicts and migrant manoeuvres in the Mediterranean Sea" - I published a new article in the journal Movements, suggesting the lens of conflict to understand what goes on at Europe’s external borders. #OpenAccess journals.uni-goettingen.de/movements/ar...
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Christian Jakob @chrjkb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Selbst deutsche Diplomaten sprachen schon 2017 von „KZ-ähnlichen Zuständen“ in den libyschen Internierungslagern für Migrant:innen. Gestern stand zum ersten Mal einer der verantwortlichen Milizenführer in Den Haag wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vor Gericht. taz.de/Internationa...
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Internationaler Strafgerichtshof: Libyscher Kommandant wegen Folter von Mi­gran­t:in­nen vor IStGH
Mord, Folter, Vergewaltigung sind nur einige der Vorwürfe gegen Mohamed Ali El Hishri. 2025 war er in Berlin verhaftet und nach Den Haag überstellt worden.
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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 16/05/2026
🔴 BREAKING: Italy is investigating our captain! After rescuing 166 people from distress at sea and being SHOT AT, CHASED, AND THREATENED WITH ABDUCTION by EU-funded Libyan militias, our crew is now being targeted – WTF?!
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BREAKING: After attack on Sea-Watch 5, Italy opens criminal investigation against captain • Sea-Watch e.V.
Saturday, 16 May – Italy has opened a criminal investigation against the captain of the Sea-Watch 5 with the accusation of “aiding and abetting unauthorized immigration”. The Sea-Watch 5 had entered t...
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Caroline Tracey @cetracey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
www.theborderchronicle.com/the-dna-arch... Sharing this newly published investigation, coreported by me and a colleague. The DNA database crucial in migrant identification in the borderlands for years has itself gone missing. Co-published by @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and @highcountrynews.org
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The DNA Archive Built to Identify the Border’s Missing Has Vanished
The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. But now it's gone dark.
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
@mauricestierl.bsky.social forscht im #SFB1604 zur Produktion von Räumen migrantischen Verschwindens. Mit @brotfuerdiewelt.bsky.social hat er über die problematischen Zahlen zu Toten auf #Migrationsrouten gesprochen. ➡️ buff.ly/rpnZ66M #Migration #Migrationsforschung #Grenzen #EU #Politik
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Tote zählen auf den Migrationsrouten
Was ist die tödlichste Migrationsroute der Welt? Und was steckt hinter den verbreiteten Zahlen? Ein Gespräch mit dem Wissenschaftler Maurice Stierl über die...
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medico international @medico2.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Heute gedenken wir den Opfern des rassistischen Anschlags in #Hanau vor 6 Jahren. Neun Menschen verloren am 19.02.2020 ihr Leben. Inzwischen ist ein weiteres Opfer hinzugekommen: Ibrahim Akkuş. Er verstarb am 10. Januar 2026 an den Spätfolgen von Schussverletzungen. #HanauIstÜberall
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Ibrahim Akkuş
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I know the govt is in meltdown again… but meanwhile I wrote about how their immigration policies create a subclass of migrant workers exposed to abuse in an increasingly “Dubai-style” rightless immigration model & I explain what to do about it
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medico international @medico2.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Israel entzieht 37 deutschen & internationalen Hilfsorganisationen die Registrierung, darunter auch medico international. Unsere Pressemitteilung:
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The lack of coverage is disturbing
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The UK media’s silence on the Palestine Action activists’ hunger strikes is a deliberate editorial choice - Media@LSE
LSE's Professor Bart Cammaerts discusses the lack of coverage of the hunger strikes of imprisoned Palestine Action activists in the UK media.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"Turning vast geographies such as the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea into death zones is not enough for those who see their fight as a civilisational one, steeped in racial mythology and 'remigration' fantasies that will ultimately also turn against Europe’s minority citizens." Great piece.
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us | Maurice Stierl
The hard right and far right are the political winners from the migration ‘crisis’, but only because centrist parties keep legitimising them, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In a new article #SFB1604 members Nandita Dutta & @mauricestierl.bsky.social discuss how the figure of the ‘modern slave’ emerges in their respective fields of #research, what political function it plays and what colonial, racial and spatial imaginaries it is embedded in. #modernslavery #migration
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
One can really sense the excitement that the Frontex press team must have felt when realising that they could now use a refugee story to promote its work of pushing back refugees.
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Publication out in the journal Sociology, a conversational piece with Nandita Dutta: "Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries - Nandita Dutta, Maurice Stierl, 2025
What makes up the figure of the ‘modern slave’ and why does it appear so regularly in discussions over both climate change and migration? In this conversation, ...
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In a new article on the #Portolan blog @smartitaz.bsky.social and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social stress that #migration has become a key vehicle for #authoritarianism. buff.ly/8ors8j5 #Borders #Asylum #EU #Rights #Asyl #Flüchtlingsschutz #Einwanderung #Politik #Gesellschaft #Rechtsruck
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Honoured that we were invited by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra to contribute to their new blog #Portolan! The text by Martina Tazzioli and myself is called “Punitive Environments and the anti-immigration authoritarian commonsense”. portolan-journal.org?post=punitiv...
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
On 11 November, we discussed how to “Counter the Production of Migration as Crisis”. The event was a response to the call by the Migration Scholars' Global Solidarity and Resistance Network to take action against the instrumentalisation of #migration for far-right and authoritarian projects.
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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 03/11/2025
Alerted by @alarmphone.bsky.social, our Aurora just rescued 22 people from distress at sea this evening. All guests are now safe on board and on their way to Lampedusa. We wish them resilience and strength in their continued struggle against Fortress Europe.
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Join our Teach-In/Out "Counter the Production of Migration as Crisis" in Osnabrück next week! This is a response to a call by the new Migration Scholars' Global Solidarity and Resistance Network to take action against the increasing violence and hostility targeting racialised communities.
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
How many #migrants die en route to the #CanaryIslands? In an article, IMIS- & #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social and @msdionis.bsky.social analyze data collection practices and contradictory numbers. They demonstrate that the data has practical consequences and produces multiple realities.
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Together with @msdionis.bsky.social I wrote this article (in Spanish) about contested data practices on migrant deaths and disappearance in the context of the Atlantic region, wondering about their performative and political effects. www.eldiario.es/andalucia/el...
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El laberinto de las cifras: datos sobre muertes y desapariciones en la ruta migratoria a Canarias
Documentar muertes y desapariciones en el mar es una tarea sumamente compleja, dado que muchas embarcaciones desaparecen sin dejar rastro en lo que se ha denominado 'naufragios invisibles'. Reconstrui...
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📢 Neuer Beitrag von IMIS- und #SFB1604-Mitglied @mauricestierl.bsky.social in der Le Monde erschienen. Er zeigt: In der #Migrationspolitik setzen sich in immer mehr #EU-Staaten die Krisennarrative der extrem Rechten durch. #Flucht #Vertreibung #Fluchtforschung #Exil #Migration #Grenzen #EU
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Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Hervorragende Auswahl von Beiträgen zu Flucht, Vertreibung und Migration in diesem neuen Heft, u.a. mit @leaypi.bsky.social, @mauricestierl.bsky.social, @chawi.bsky.social, Adam Shatz sowie dem Artikel von Jérôme Tubiana und mir zur EU-Migrationspolitik und dem Aufstieg der Milizenführer in Libyen.
Edition Le Monde diplomatique, Die Unerwünschten: Flucht, Vertreibung und Exil, Oktober 2025Edition Le Monde diplomatique, Die Unerwünschten: Flucht, Vertreibung und Exil - Inhaltsverzeichnis
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
'Die Vergrenzung Europas', mein Beitrag ist nun in der Le Monde erschienen. Die Ausgabe 'Die Unerwünschten' sieht toll aus, mit Texten von Lea Ypi, Charlotte Wiedemann, Wolfram Lacher, Jérôme Tubiana und vielen anderen. monde-diplomatique.de/product_info...
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Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe @miginventar.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Seit vielen Jahren geistert der Begriff #Wirtschaftsflüchtling durch Debatten um #Migration. Wie er das Ökonomische außerhalb des Politischen positioniert und daduruch die Legitimität von Asylgesuchen in Frage stellt, zeigt Lauren Stokes jetzt im Inventar. www.migrationsbegriffe.de/wirtschaftsf...
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Wirtschaftsflüchtling - Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe
Die von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland unterzeichnete UN-Flüchtlingskonvention von 1951 definiert ‚Flüchtlinge‘ als Personen mit einer „begründeten Furcht vor Verfolgung wegen ihrer Rasse, Religion, N...
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Refugees in Libya @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨 18 October – Manifestation in Rome 🚨 We refuse to stay silent while Italy renews its bloody deal with Libyan militias. We call on all comrades, refugees, allies & citizens of conscience: join us in Rome to say NO to the Italy–Libya Memorandum! ✊🏾 📍 Piazza dei Santi Apostoli – Rome 📅 18 October
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How do civil society actors in #Malta navigate the politically contentious issue of #migration? New Border Criminologies blog post by @cettamainwaring.bsky.social (University of Edinburgh) and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social #searchandrescue #Seenotrettung #Mediterranean #border
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Several barriers impact solidarity work on migration in Malta, including the geography of the islands, socio-political environment and maritime imaginaries. But activism is still very much alive. From @mauricestierl.bsky.social and @cettamainwaring.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
J Butler: “It is time to resist the injustice now normalized by those who capitulate to powers willing to destroy the basic principles protecting the university’s independence & who imperil the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy itself.” www.chronicle.com/article/when...
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Opinion | When Universities Become Informants
A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.
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SOS MEDITERRANEE @sosmediterranee.org · 25/08/2025
Yesterday, our teams and survivors on the Ocean Viking were deliberately shot at by Libyan Coast Guard, on a vessel gifted by Italy. We demand a full investigation into these horrifying events and an immediate end to all European collaboration with Libya. www.sosmediterranee.org/sos-med-liby...
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Ocean Viking under heavy fire by Libyan Coast Guard in unprecedented attack against survivors and humanitarian workers - SOS MEDITERRANEE
The MV Ocean Viking, search and rescue vessel chartered by SOS MEDITERRANEE in partnership with the IFRC, was deliberately targeted in a shooting by the Libyan Coast Guard.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/07/2025
An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl
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An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl
The shocking scene in Northern Ireland is the result of a decade spent militarising Europe’s fringes – and dismissing the human cost, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
My piece for the Guardian on 10 years since Europe’s border crisis: “The burning of an effigy of refugees is what happens after a decade of dehumanisation. Many have implanted a dangerous border fantasy that will continue to divide, hurt and kill.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl
The shocking scene in Northern Ireland is the result of a decade spent militarising Europe’s fringes – and dismissing the human cost, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars
Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over
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ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights @ecchr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The sanctions imposed by the United States on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese set an unacceptable precedent and constitute a direct attack on the international human rights order. This is the first time that a state has imposed targeted punitive measures on a UN mandate holder.
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel; Photo: Laura Fiorio
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"How did 'imported antisemitism', a far-right anti-immigrant buzz phrase, make it into the political mainstream?" Do read Mithu Sanyal's comment for the Guardian. @mithu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Germany is ‘importing’ antisemitism, our leaders claim. Irony is not their strong point | Mithu Sanyal
Blaming migrants for the rise in anti-Jewish crimes shows a breathtaking lack of self-awareness , says author and academic Mithu Sanyal
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"The #weaponisation and securitisation of #migration has a long history,” says Stierl, “the hybrid warfare narrative [...] is just the latest attempt to justify European deterrence efforts in places like #Libya, where the humanitarian situation is unimaginable for those stuck there.”
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Out now: Collective article that examines the role of #reflexivity in the field of #migrationstudies, written by @mauricestierl.bsky.social, @laurastielike.bsky.social, @phischaefer.bsky.social, Inken Bartels, Anna Amelina, Iva Dodevska, Maissam Nimer, Omololá S. Olarinde-Olomola: buff.ly/v9aPfij
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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 26/06/2025
Yesterday, our monitoring aircraft crew sighted three bodies floating in international waters off Libya. On a second flight, we discovered two more. A Libyan militia boat, funded by Italy, was nearby but refused to respond to our calls. [1/3]
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Die #Bundesregierung stoppt die finanzielle Hilfe für die zivile #Seenotrettung. Dabei sei deren Präsenz auf dem #Mittelmeer unabdingbar, um Menschenleben zu retten, denn sichere #Fluchtwege fehlen, so IMIS- & #SFB1604-Mitglied @mauricestierl.bsky.social‬ im Interview mit dem MDR. buff.ly/i2xUqrC
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Bundesregierung stoppt Hilfe für zivile Seenotretter | MDR.DE
Im Gespräch mit Maurice Stierl, Migrationsforscher an der Universität Osnabrück
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/06/2025
After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.
A photo of Mahmoud Khalil holding up a fist and smiling wide, and holding a bouquet of flowers. He is wearing a Keffiyeh. A photo of Mahmoud Khalil smiling and bending over a black stroller, with a baby’s small hand sticking out and grabbing Mahmoud’s finger.
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medico international @medico.de · 21/06/2025
Wenn der Genozid in Gaza möglich ist, wenn die Bombardierung der 15-Millionen-Stadt Teheran möglich ist, wo sind noch rote Linien? 1/5
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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
🧵 Two Years Since the Pylos Shipwreck On June 14, 2023, the deadliest maritime tragedy in recent EU history occurred off the coast of Pylos, Greece. An estimated 750 people, mainly from Syria, Pakistan, and Egypt, were on board.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 12/06/2025
Statistics on deaths at sea vary considerably and are themselves deeply contested, and geographical designations of 'the Sahara' or 'the Mediterranean' are anything but specific — but that has not prevented the circulation of dubious estimates on ‘desert deaths’, warns Dr Maurice Stierl.
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Sahara desert vs Mediterranean - where do more migrants actually die?
Statistics on deaths at sea vary considerably and are themselves deeply contested, and geographical designations of 'the Sahara' or 'the Mediterranean' are anything but specific — but that has not prevented the circulation of dubious estimates on ‘desert deaths’, warns Dr Maurice Stierl.
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